How to Remove Empty White Space

When the following code is displayed on the page there is a space between the Type in Search Text... and the input prompt. When I use the IE tool to examine the HTML code there is a line Text - Empty Text Node. How can I get rid of this extra space?

Steve Dyke wrote:When the following code is displayed on the page there is a space between the Type in Search Text... and the input prompt. When I use the IE tool to examine the HTML code there is a line Text - Empty Text Node. How can I get rid of this extra space?